Table Of ContentXenophon’s Anabasis and its Reception
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Volume 134
Xenophon’s Anabasis
and its Reception
Edited by
Tim Rood and Melina Tamiolaki
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Acknowledgements
This volume arose from a conference co-organised by Nikos Miltsios, Tim Rood,
and Melina Tamiolaki in Heraklion (Crete), in October 2018. We are grateful to
all participants for their excellent contributions and the stimulating discussion,
which made this event a truly rewarding experience. The organisation of the
conference was made possible thanks to the support of the Special Account of
Research Funds of the University of Crete (Grant of Type B Proposals), the De-
partment of Philology of the University of Crete, and the Region of Crete. We
also wish to thank Antonios Rengakos and Franco Montanari for accepting this
volume into the series Trends in Classics of Walter de Gruyter. Finally, Melina
Tamiolaki would like to acknowledge the support of her research by the Foun-
dation of Education and European Culture (IPEP, Athens).
The title of the conference back in 2018 was Anabases in Antiquity and Be-
yond. Xenophon’s Anabasis and its Legacy. Our initial aim was to offer a fresh
interpretation of both Xenophon’s Anabasis and of other Anabases in Antiquity
and modern times. However, when we started designing this volume, we real-
ised, following also the suggestions and comments of colleagues who read an
initial draft, that Xenophon’s Anabasis deserved in itself a more in-depth explo-
ration, necessitated, among other reasons, by the recent explosion of Xeno-
phontic studies. We thus decided to reconceive the scope of volume: we invited
additional contributions on specific aspects or episodes of Xenophon’s Anabasis,
so as to offer a broader coverage of readings and themes; we reduced the papers
on Arrian, who initially occupied a whole section at the conference; and we con-
siderably enriched the section on reception. We thank all contributors for their
flexibility and patience, and their timely responses, throughout this long process.
We are also grateful to Panagiotis Androulakis for compiling the indexes.
The volume appears four years after the conference took place. In the
course of these years, several important works on Xenophon have been pub-
lished, including, most notably, in 2021, the Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis,
edited by Shane Brennan and David Thomas. We have tried to take account of
new findings and we hope that the present book will be a timely and useful
addition to the (still growing) body of Xenophontic scholarship.
We would like to dedicate this volume to the memory of our fathers, Pearce
Rood and Nikolaos Tamiolakis, who both passed away in the last years of the
preparation of this project.
Tim Rood, Oxford
Melina Tamiolaki, Heraklion
May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793437-203
Contents
Acknowledgements VII
Abbreviations XIII
List of Figures XV
Tim Rood and Melina Tamiolaki
Introduction 1
Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis
John Dillery
Starting and Restarting the Anabasis 13
Gabriel Danzig
Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in
Cyropaedia 43
Carol Atack
Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3 63
Louis-André Dorion
The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in
the Anabasis (3.1.4–8) 85
Christopher J. Tuplin and Shane Brennan
From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis
Book 4 105
Emily Baragwanath
A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5
and 6 131
David Thomas
Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary
Commander? 157
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Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis
Paul Demont
Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis 183
Roberto Nicolai
Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis 205
Sarah Brown Ferrario
Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis 233
Melina Tamiolaki
Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative
Emotions 257
Antonis Tsakmakis
The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis 287
Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity
to Modern Times
Estelle Strazdins
Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary
Authority 311
Nikos Miltsios
Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases 329
Ewen Bowie
The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia 345
Scott Kennedy
The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium 367
Noreen Humble
The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries 395
Tim Rood
The Anabasis Illustrated 423
